Debunking Evolution - Fossils (Lesson 6a)

Genesis Apologetics

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Is it just me, or does it seem like the fossil record strikes out when it comes to evolution?

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Practicing for the big game this weekend? Yep. You're looking pretty good. Oh, thanks.

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Just remember, keep your eye on the ball and your swing will just naturally follow through.

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Thanks. Good advice. So what are you up to? Well, I need to practice for the speech and debate tournament this weekend.

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Oh yeah, the big debate over the fossil record. Yeah, you could say I'm a little nervous.

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Eh, you'll do great. It's just like baseball. Keep your eye on the topic and your presentation will naturally follow through.

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John! John! John! John! John! John! Oh gosh, I killed him. No, John! Are you okay? Ladies and gentlemen, it's been quite a game so far.

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There's two outs, and it appears that Jane's up for team evolution. You ready? Yep. But I'm going to knock this one over the fence as I take a swing at it with ancestral forms.

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What do you mean by that? Evolution predicts that we should have fossils of the simplest creatures at the bottom of the rock layers, showing a time when life supposedly started evolving on Earth.

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Okay. You ready? Let her rip. Uh, what kind of a pitch was that?

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Nothing special. It's just that some of the lowest rock layers with fossils, called Cambrian, reveal incredibly complicated creatures right at the start.

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If evolution were true, we would expect to see single -celled organisms down there, then basic looking multi -celled creatures above them.

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Instead, we see Cambrian layers full of very complex sea creatures with no clear ancestors in the lower rocks.

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The Cambrian presents a dramatic explosion in animal varieties, including an example from every one of today's major groups, plus more besides.

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Look at this trilobite, for example. Its vision system was more complicated than yours or mine. Each eye had over 15 ,000 individual lenses.

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So there are no simple creatures gradually leading up to them? Sorry, they just appear suddenly in the layers.

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Okay, well you got me with that one, but I'm going to nail it with this one. I'm swinging with transitional fossils this time.

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Okay, here comes the pitch. Whoa, that flew by.

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What kind of a pitch was that? I use my fastball, since you're trying to pull a fast one. The expected transitional fossils are missing.

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What? Can I have a talk with you? Time out. Time out!

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Is there an echo in here? Is there an echo in here? Sorry. Okay, what do you mean there are no transitional fossils?

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In Charles Darwin's book on the origin of species, he wrote, Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?

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Darwin saw the problem? Yeah, and he hoped future fossil digs would reveal the transitional forms.

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Since then, for more than 150 years, mankind has been collecting fossils. We have over 200 million in museums.

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So in other words, most animals that have lived on Earth have been fossilized and discovered? Right, and if evolution were true, we should have millions of fossils that show us the evolution between all these animals, since evolution is a gradual process.

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But in our high school textbooks, they show some transitional fossils. How did you do that?

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Dream sequence. Well, in that case... Not bad. Look right here.

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In both of these textbooks, they showed pictures of the Archaeopteryx fossil, supposedly half dinosaur and half bird.

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Yeah, it was discovered in 1861. Alan Fiducia, a paleontologist who led studies in the origins of birds, said this back in 1993.

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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an Earth -bound feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It's a bird.

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A perching bird. No amount of paleobabble is going to change that. Since making that statement, there has been a constant battle in the evolutionary camp about whether Archaeopteryx should be even considered an ancestor to birds.

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And many are making the case that it should be thrown out of the evolutionary lineup, going from being a bird to a dinosaur and then back to a bird.

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Archaeopteryx was even further disqualified as an evolutionary ancestor for birds when scientists found what appears to be a crow -sized bird and extinct four -winged birds in rock layers designated to be below those containing

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Archaeopteryx. Talk about throwing a wild pitch. Wild pitches happen often in the game of evolution, like the fossil called

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Tiktaalik. It quickly became the missing link between fish and four -legged creatures that first walked on land.

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Oh yeah, I heard of that. It was kind of the star of transitional fossils. But then, in 2010, scientists announced in the journal

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Nature that they had found footprints of a four -legged land creature in Poland that are supposedly 10 million years older than Tiktaalik.

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So there goes Tiktaalik as a clear transitional fossil, and yet, here it is, still in our textbook. Like I said, there should be millions of transitional fossils.

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So if evolutionary theory can only suggest a few, and those few have major problems, it discredits the theory.

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Okay, so that last one was definitely a strike. But I'm ready for one more pitch. What are you swinging with this time?

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Evolution theory holds that Darwin's evolution tree started simple and then branched out to all the amazing animals we have today.

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Okay. Guess you can give it a try. Yes, I can. Strike three!

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Evolution has struck out! Oh, shut it! That was a curveball! Yep, we see that there are many more kinds of animals than we have today.

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And many of those went extinct? Opposite of evolution. Okay, well, you're up to bat.

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I'm going to slug it out of the park with the fossil record confirms a worldwide flood. Really?

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Yes! Fossil record shows a worldwide flood was a home run!

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Yep, fossil graveyards containing animals from land, sea, and air all jumbled together. And in many cases, the destruction was so powerful that fossilized creatures were ripped apart and buried quickly in mud.

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And 95 % of the entire record is marine fossils buried mostly in land rocks, not ocean bottom sediments.

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Many layers that contain fossils are so large that they stretch over many states and sometimes cross continents.

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That definitely sounds like a lot of water. Water. A lot of water. Too much water.

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Really? I was dreaming. I was pitching for creation.

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You were batting for evolution. Okay, that's it. If I was batting for evolution, that means

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I'm calling a doctor. No, no, no. I'm okay. So you dream that evolution lost the game?

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Yeah, no. The fossil record didn't support it. But the evidence was in line with the biblical flood.

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And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh.

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Wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die. Genesis 6 .17

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And Genesis 7 .19 -20 says, And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.

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The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. So after 150 years,

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Darwin's theory still hasn't been proven true. So I guess when it comes to the fossil record, evolution strikes out.